Post-PFI Soviet/Russian Aircraft Projects - B-90

The B-90 (Bombardirovshik, "Bomber") project was intended to develop a next generation bomber aircraft to replace Tu-22Ms, although the project seems to have been cancelled before much work was accomplished. It is believed that the main competitors were Tupolev and Sukhoi. Sukhoi submitted the T-60 design, which had a variable-geometry wing on the lower fuselage, two 2D thrust vectoring engines, a flat lifting fuselage, stealth capability, the ability to store ALCMs within its bay and Mach 2+ speed. There were at least three different designs named T-60 and T-60S. They resulted in final T-54 design, submitted around 1993. Tupolev submitted a flying wing design called the Tu-202, but the design posed many problems and was later abandoned due to the Soviets' inexperience with flying wing designs. The B-90 project seems to have halted with the development of the Su-32 and the Tu-22M5 models as well as the Russian PAK DA.